{"id":10561,"date":"2010-10-27T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T18:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2010-10-27T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T18:47:28","slug":"listening-to-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10561","title":{"rendered":"Listening To..."},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Them Crooked Vultures - The Crooked Vultures<\/b> - It's John Paul Jones [Zeppelin] on bass, Dave Grohl [Nirvana, Foo Fighters] on drums and Josh Homme [Queens Of The Stone Age and Eagles Of Death Metal] on guitar and vocals. That's a hell of a mix, on paper. Josh Homme, because his singing and guitar work has such a distinctive melodic style, tends to dominate the songs. And so a lot of it sounds a lot like QotSA. And that's fine, because I like QotSA. Grohl is a monster drummer, and he doesn't let up on this. Jones has never been a really flashy bass player and he pretty much keeps to the background here - which is fine since Grohl and Homme provide plenty of flash. Good stuff, especially if you're a Queens Of The Stone Age Fan.
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  2. Rogue Wave - Permalight<\/b> - Two albums ago, Rogue Wave was a low-key, slightly psychedelic, folk-rock band - strumming their quirky somewhat-melancholy songs on acoustic guitars. Now, they're a shiny alternative pop band with keyboards and loud electric guitars. The change happened with their last record, \"Asleep at Heaven's Gate\", when they ditched the strummy acoustic folk feel of their first two records in favor of a bigger, louder, thicker sound. But that record felt tentative, as if they weren't sure about the new sound. It never really rocked, and it didn't have the intimate feel of the previous stuff either.It just kinda sat there. Well, they're over it now. This one comes out swinging, loud and proud: happy chirpy keyboards are everywhere; the drums are tight, precise, compressed; the guitars are loud; dynamics! background vocals! A few of the songs actually rock<\/i> - though in a giddy, singsong way. It's better. They're not the Rogue Wave of their first records (the one that I love), but they've committed to this new sound and that makes them a better Rogue Wave than they were last time out.
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  3. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder<\/b> - Their first record was unexpected and quirky and catchy. This one is long on quirky but way short on catchy, and the sound is no longer unexpected. So, it just kinda drags.
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  4. Bauhaus - In The Flat Field<\/b> - Wow. Wha wha wha what a great re re record. I'm pretty bummed that I waited 30 years to get it. This would've kicked ass in college. The drums and bass lock down the song; Peter Murphy sneers and bellows his horror-show lyrics; Daniel Ash's guitar howls and screeches over all of it. That's the formula, and they mostly stick to it - maybe a little too tightly. Plus this is the re-issued version with all kinds of extra songs and takes, so it goes on a lot longer than the original. Still, the formula really works - the parts are all great, and work great together. You just need to be careful to not take too much of it at once.
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    Them Crooked Vultures - The Crooked Vultures - It's John Paul Jones [Zeppelin] on bass, Dave Grohl [Nirvana, Foo Fighters] on drums and Josh Homme [Queens Of The Stone Age and Eagles Of Death Metal] on guitar and vocals. That's a hell of a mix, on paper. Josh Homme, because his singing and guitar work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}